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I had a situation following heart surgery where I kept passing out. One thing led to another and I moved from my apartment into a house and somehow misplaced my bag of drugs.
For two weeks, I was fine, didn't pass out once despite packing boxes, moving, unpacking, etc.
When I finally found the bag, I was like "I bet this is one of the meds..." So I decided to start re-taking them one at a time.
First one I picked was Carvedilol and I passed out 15 minutes later.
Now, I'm not advising you do what I did, stopping any medication can be incredibly dangerous, but maybe make a spreadsheet of everything you're taking, why you're taking it, and any notable side effects are in order.
You might also talk to your pharmacist and explain what's going on, they might have a handle on how drug 'x' interacts with drugs 'y' and 'z' and so on.
Thank you. I know a good doctor she's just not my GP, I think I'll take an appointment with her and try to explain to her that the emergency doctor from yesterday told me to stop my medication to see if one or several of them is causing gastrointestinal issues. I think she'd be open to it. I hope you're better since your surgery.
NGL - it's been rough! Lots of complications, including a 2nd heart attack and random incidents where my heart would just STOP up to 8 seconds at a time, but I think I'm out the other side now.
I feel bad upvoting this but this is a support upvote not an happy one. I am sorry you're going through this, it takes a strong person to survive all that. Are you younger than the general pop having heart attacks?
Yeah, I was 49 when I had the first one + the open heart surgery, then 54 for the 2nd one, that one got stented.
Years ago docs diagnosed me with three congenital restrictions in my heart, so we knew they were lurking. 3rd one is in a super hard to reach place so the plan is to do nothing.
My whole heart goes out to you. I am sorry.